Two important religious pilgrim centers of Buddhism are located in northern India. Sarnath is the famous spot where Buddha delivered his first sermon to his five disciples after attaining Nirvana.

13:07 IST On a tour to Sarnath Sarnath is a destination that is closely related to Gautam Buddha, and is located about 13 km northeast of Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh. Due to its proximity to ...

Prince Siddhartha became Buddha, or the Enlightened One. From Bodh Gaya, Buddha went to the Deer Park (Mrigadava) in Sarnath, where the five monks who had been with him during his ascetic phase ...

Located 10 kilometres northeast of Varanasi, Sarnath is a holy Buddhist site where Lord Buddha gave his first sermon. The deer park is where he first taught the Dharma. Prime Minister Narendra ...

The township will come up on 109.9 hectares of land in Sarnath, located around eight km from Varanasi where Lord Buddha gave his first sermon after attaining enlightenment. The Housing and ...

There were no excavations at Sarnath until Mani restarted it in 2013-14. Before digging, he and his team had to study all previous excavation reports. “We located those areas on graph paper and ...

Varanasi: One of the branches of the historical ‘Bodhi tree' in Sarnath, where Gautama Buddha had given his first sermon and set in motion the ‘Dharma-Chakra', has fallen.

The world's tallest Buddha statue is coming up at the Thai temple in Sarnath.

Bikramjit Roy travelled to Sarnath in Uttar Pradesh. That's the Dhamek Stupa in Sarnath. Debmalya Mazumder snapped the Vivekananda Setu in Kolkata. The Veena lake in Mahabaleshwar is dotted by ...